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Whether it’s a half day of training or 4 days of training, Trico can customize a course to fit your needs.

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Step 4: Choose the Content of your Customized Training

Step 5: Contact Jeff Tindall at 800.558.7008, ext. 403 or jtindall@tricocorp.com for an immediate quote.

Course Content

Maintenance Strategies

  • Lubrication program strategy
  • Equipment maintenance strategies
  • Reliability centered maintenance
  • Lube failure modes effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)
  • Advanced strategy model
  • Modern maintenance strategies

Lubrication Theory

  • Purpose of a lubricant
  • Functions of a lubricant
  • Tribology and friction
  • Mixed film lubrication
  • Hydrodynamic lubrication
  • Elastohydrodynamic lubrication

Lubricant Types

  • Mineral lubricants
  • Synthetic lubricants
  • Vegetable lubricants
  • Greases
  • Solid lubricants

Lubricant Properties

  • Physical properties
  • Chemical properties

Lubricant Roles and Functions

  • Base oils
  • Lubrication regimes
  • Additive functions
  • Synthetic lubricants

Lubricant Selection

  • Journal bearings
  • Rolling element bearings
  • Gears and gearboxes
  • Seals
  • Cylinders/reciprocating engines
  • Electric motors

Lubricant Applications

  • Manual lubrication
  • Natural delivery methods
  • Oilers Pressure deliver methods
  • Centralized lubrication

Lubricant Storage and Management

  • Consolidating
  • Procurement
  • Storage
  • Dispensing
  • Transferring

Lubrication Management Best Practices

  • Lubrication maintenance
  • Oil changes
  • Leakage
  • Safety
  • Best practices

Preventative and Predictive Maintenance Fundamentals

  • Appearance screening
  • Contamination monitoring
  • Physical and chemical testing
  • Typical grease monitoring
  • Targets and limits

Lubricant Analysis Fundamentals

  • Introduction to oil analysis
  • Sampling equipment and options
  • Sample bottles

Oil Analysis Maintenance Strategies

  • Fundamental aspects of RCM
  • Fundamental aspects of CBM

Oil Sampling

  • Objectives for lube oil sampling
  • Sampling tools
  • Test port installation methods
  • Equipment specific sampling
  • Sampling methods
  • Case study
  • Managing interference
  • Sampling process management

Lubricant Health Monitoring

  • Lubricant failure mechanisms
  • Testing for wrong or mixed lubricants
  • Fluid properties test methods and measurement units

Lubricant Contamination Method and Control

  • Particle contamination
  • Moisture contamination
  • Glycol coolant contamination
  • Soot contamination
  • Fuel contamination
  • Air contamination

Wear Debris Monitoring and Analysis

  • Common wear mechanisms
  • Detecting abnormal wear

Hands-On Practical Installation and Implementation

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